Didn't any of you read Ender's Game? Remember how, among other things, Ender often longs to just be a kid?
I wish I had mod points. This is something a lot of the above average kids I hung around with didn't learn until later in life. Go run around outside.:D
How can we on one hand complain about an excess of laws, poorly written laws, challenge the trolls exploiting the laws, and generally complain about the inaccessibility of the law to the common man, while on the other hand claim a shortage of jobs for lawyers?
The technically savvy and privacy oriented users who would want a service have other means to protect themselves. Less savvy users would at least be wary of the service. It would finally fall apart for the same two reasons that loyalty card swapping falls apart lack of problems from not swapping and loss of rewards (like gas discounts) that require a card be used and registered and will give it value so it won't be freely traded.
If someone was put on a list, charged with crimes and then cleared I would consider that person to be a risk for being a terrorist. They're probably pretty cross with the US of A after going through all that and might try to get revenge.
And it wasn't about getting mid-career people out and cutting 20 years off their expected jobs.
The program is aimed at a segment of U.S. and Canadian employees at least 50 years old who have a combined age plus years of service with Cisco totaling at least 60
It's always about getting rid of those of us over 50 who are just too expensive to keep on-board. I'm 61 with an impressive resume and can't get anyone to respond to my attempts to secure a new job. Firms don't attach any value to experience; they only look at the cost side. Replacing a 55-yo employee with 30 years of experience with a 25-year-old newcomer at half or less the salary and benefits is what passes for "human relations" in corporations these days.
Stick with it. The young devs in our 20's need you more than we know.
My last gig had me working with a great man (hi skoona!!) who was in his 50's, retired from one of the big names in computing, and wanted to get back to straight up software development. I was a few years out of college and just settling in to a lead developer role. Hiring that man for a small, young team was one of the best decisions my boss made. The good older developers come with a lot of extra experience beyond the technical stuff, I learned more about project planning and staying sane by osmosis in 3 months than I did in years of college.
It might not help yuna49 very much, but if you can stick with the job search a bit you will make a mark on your coworkers before you retire. My generation may not always realize it, or show it very well, but we do need elders around to learn from.
You think that if the government decides you don't need something its ok to make it illegal. You Nanny State Government knows whats best for us Liberals make me ill. Why do you hate freedom so much. You would have been a good communist. "Nyet, nyet, we don't need our guns, you can take them, Comrade Stalin will protect us."
Woosh!
Liberals - Want to limit your rights to: speech that might offend someone, take risks for yourself, own things that look dangerous (firearms), do anything that might go against "its for the children" Conservatives - Want to limit your rights to: speech that might offend someone, have sexual liasons with the same gender, own things that look dangerous (technology) do anything that might go against "its for the children"
Its not about left/right liberal/conservative or whatever the banned thing is, its all about control.
The postal service is way way WAY too critical to leave in the hands of a company that cares nothing about quality and everything about profits.
I'm sure it will be quite safe in the hands of the government. As it sits it is already about profits. The USPS is a quasi-governmental agency that is theoretically self funding through the sale of postage and services. It may not be out to function as an investor driven business with quarterly growth, but its not a tax sinkhole nor a charity/non-profit organization.
I think I can shorten your argument. The folks pushing alternative energy want "green" energy. The current options for "green" energy are simply "greenER" energy.
Every form of alternative energy has some negative impact. We can get very close to zero impact, but we will always have some impact on the environment if we extract energy from it. Its important to be honest about that. If you aren't honest about it, most people will catch on and you'll turn them off because they feel lied to. If you are honest about it, you can make genuine progress. Nuclear isn't perfect, but its a damn sight better than coal. Solar has some drawbacks too, but its got some benefits that are pretty good.
Also, you need a very large amount to do anything serious, on the order of several large garbage bags full (caver rating scale: 2bagger, 3bagger...), stuff very unlikely to go unnoticed. Otherwise you get about the equivalent of a flash-bang.
Its still enough. In some respects we've been lucky that the terrorists are out for a body count and a big show. Setting off a home made flash-bang in a populated, public, and supposedly secure place (like inside airport security in a trash can) and doing it frequently would have one of two effects:
- make people numb to minor events, making it easier to go bigger and bigger
- make people wake up as to how ineffective security is and make them realize they are responsible for their own safety and that life is inherently risky
The point here is that you can do quite a bit of psychological damage and stay within the liquid rules.
Except for the fact that it's been shown by explosives experts and chemists alike that the "liquid explosive" theory is not viable. It is difficult to do under lab conditions and nearly impossible to do in the bathroom of an airplane. So, once again, it's knee jerk BS response.
While the 'liquid bomb' plot is bogus, you can cause quite a bit of mayhem with a few ounces of powder or liquid.
I'm no chemist but off the top of my head some carbide in a makeup jar then dumped into a water bottle would make a nice bang and possibly enough flame to start a fire.
Anything that would smell bad, even a prank stink bomb, would fall well under the 3 oz. rule and cause mayhem.
It really stinks for the childcare industry as well, it's hard to have staff to handle a huge amount of business for one day per week.
I don't think this is actually a problem. There will be some number of qualified people, the teachers who are now off one day a week or friends who are also parents, that can do the work.
Well, Google does it with their toolbar for IE, Google Desktop Search and Chrome. I think most slashdotters think Google as somewhat reputable company.
Well thats just rude. How dare Google install a toolbar when I download the Google Toolbar for IE!
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Didn't any of you read Ender's Game? Remember how, among other things, Ender often longs to just be a kid?
I wish I had mod points. This is something a lot of the above average kids I hung around with didn't learn until later in life. Go run around outside. :D
But then again, I never heard parties say "we need government to stop giving subsidies to business..."
You're listening to the wrong parties. http://www.lp.org/platform
OpenVPN can use any port and is not detected as regular VPN communication, and can thus bypass firewalls that blocks VPN communication.
How is OpenVPN not detected as regular VPN communication?
Does it have its own signatures and patterns which are detectable?
I hit Alibaba.com and it didn't look that bad. No worse than any other generic or broad commerce site like Craigslist or eBay or Amazon.
So how is it the "good" programmers in management don't review and stop this broken code?
How can we on one hand complain about an excess of laws, poorly written laws, challenge the trolls exploiting the laws, and generally complain about the inaccessibility of the law to the common man, while on the other hand claim a shortage of jobs for lawyers?
is that possible?
Possible, yes. Likely, no.
The technically savvy and privacy oriented users who would want a service have other means to protect themselves. Less savvy users would at least be wary of the service. It would finally fall apart for the same two reasons that loyalty card swapping falls apart lack of problems from not swapping and loss of rewards (like gas discounts) that require a card be used and registered and will give it value so it won't be freely traded.
Who cares about boot time. Its a phone, when is it ever off?
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If someone was put on a list, charged with crimes and then cleared I would consider that person to be a risk for being a terrorist. They're probably pretty cross with the US of A after going through all that and might try to get revenge.
Oh and keep them off my lawn.
Stop letting your kids watch TV you don't approve of.
But how do we know that your testing gear is the best. Maybe we should have a "bake-off" between you and another test gear vendor...
It's always about getting rid of those of us over 50 who are just too expensive to keep on-board. I'm 61 with an impressive resume and can't get anyone to respond to my attempts to secure a new job. Firms don't attach any value to experience; they only look at the cost side. Replacing a 55-yo employee with 30 years of experience with a 25-year-old newcomer at half or less the salary and benefits is what passes for "human relations" in corporations these days.
Stick with it. The young devs in our 20's need you more than we know.
My last gig had me working with a great man (hi skoona!!) who was in his 50's, retired from one of the big names in computing, and wanted to get back to straight up software development. I was a few years out of college and just settling in to a lead developer role. Hiring that man for a small, young team was one of the best decisions my boss made. The good older developers come with a lot of extra experience beyond the technical stuff, I learned more about project planning and staying sane by osmosis in 3 months than I did in years of college.
It might not help yuna49 very much, but if you can stick with the job search a bit you will make a mark on your coworkers before you retire. My generation may not always realize it, or show it very well, but we do need elders around to learn from.
You think that if the government decides you don't need something its ok to make it illegal. You Nanny State Government knows whats best for us Liberals make me ill. Why do you hate freedom so much. You would have been a good communist. "Nyet, nyet, we don't need our guns, you can take them, Comrade Stalin will protect us."
Woosh!
Liberals - Want to limit your rights to: speech that might offend someone, take risks for yourself, own things that look dangerous (firearms), do anything that might go against "its for the children"
Conservatives - Want to limit your rights to: speech that might offend someone, have sexual liasons with the same gender, own things that look dangerous (technology) do anything that might go against "its for the children"
Its not about left/right liberal/conservative or whatever the banned thing is, its all about control.
If it weren't for a 2006 law requiring it to over fund it's retiree pension and medical expenses it likely wouldn't be in the financial mess it's in.
It would be in a different mess, with an underfunded pension liability like many state governments.
The postal service is way way WAY too critical to leave in the hands of a company that cares nothing about quality and everything about profits.
I'm sure it will be quite safe in the hands of the government. As it sits it is already about profits. The USPS is a quasi-governmental agency that is theoretically self funding through the sale of postage and services. It may not be out to function as an investor driven business with quarterly growth, but its not a tax sinkhole nor a charity/non-profit organization.
Quick read: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/uspsabout.htm, the last two sections are relevant.
I think I can shorten your argument. The folks pushing alternative energy want "green" energy. The current options for "green" energy are simply "greenER" energy.
Every form of alternative energy has some negative impact. We can get very close to zero impact, but we will always have some impact on the environment if we extract energy from it. Its important to be honest about that. If you aren't honest about it, most people will catch on and you'll turn them off because they feel lied to. If you are honest about it, you can make genuine progress. Nuclear isn't perfect, but its a damn sight better than coal. Solar has some drawbacks too, but its got some benefits that are pretty good.
But seriously....what's the deal with all these damned spellings of names? Does everyone over there spell their name 15 different ways?
Spell your western name using the Japanese phonetic alphabet, a Cyrillic language like Russian or Czech, Mandarin, or Arabic then get back to us.
Also, you need a very large amount to do anything serious, on the order of several large garbage bags full (caver rating scale: 2bagger, 3bagger...), stuff very unlikely to go unnoticed. Otherwise you get about the equivalent of a flash-bang.
Its still enough. In some respects we've been lucky that the terrorists are out for a body count and a big show. Setting off a home made flash-bang in a populated, public, and supposedly secure place (like inside airport security in a trash can) and doing it frequently would have one of two effects:
- make people numb to minor events, making it easier to go bigger and bigger
- make people wake up as to how ineffective security is and make them realize they are responsible for their own safety and that life is inherently risky
The point here is that you can do quite a bit of psychological damage and stay within the liquid rules.
Except for the fact that it's been shown by explosives experts and chemists alike that the "liquid explosive" theory is not viable. It is difficult to do under lab conditions and nearly impossible to do in the bathroom of an airplane. So, once again, it's knee jerk BS response.
While the 'liquid bomb' plot is bogus, you can cause quite a bit of mayhem with a few ounces of powder or liquid.
I'm no chemist but off the top of my head some carbide in a makeup jar then dumped into a water bottle would make a nice bang and possibly enough flame to start a fire.
Anything that would smell bad, even a prank stink bomb, would fall well under the 3 oz. rule and cause mayhem.
Yeah, but they lost 3.31 tons of cargo, which is really unfortunate. It already costs a shitload just to send 1 kg into space, imagine 3.31 tons.
Well how much did it cost for us to let it burn up before orbit? We might technically be saving money here...
It really stinks for the childcare industry as well, it's hard to have staff to handle a huge amount of business for one day per week.
I don't think this is actually a problem. There will be some number of qualified people, the teachers who are now off one day a week or friends who are also parents, that can do the work.
Well, Google does it with their toolbar for IE, Google Desktop Search and Chrome. I think most slashdotters think Google as somewhat reputable company.
Well thats just rude. How dare Google install a toolbar when I download the Google Toolbar for IE!
LeEches. Dammit.
Is that French for "the Eches"?